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Marshall's ability to extract from the confusion of the most involved question its vital elements and to state those elements in simple terms was helpful to the court, and frankly appreciated by the judges.
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This statement emphasizes Marshall's skill in simplifying complex legal issues for the court, which was appreciated by judges.
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Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
On this, the only vital and enduring question involved, Marshall's views were clear and unshakable.
Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.
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